Population of Rome over Time

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Last updated: Monday June 28th, 2021

The population of the city of Rome fell to remarkably low numbers during the Middle Ages before rebounding in modern times.

We are aware that there is no year 0, but I couldn't make Google charts work with BC dates

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Year	Population
-700	80000
-400	300000
-200	300000
-100	600000
1	1250000
100	1500000
400	500000
500	100000
600	80000
800	35000
1084	15000
1377	17000
1527	55000
1748	150000
1800	153000
1861	194500
1911	518917
1961	2188160
2017	2876051

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Level 85

Jul 21, 2018

1084 - the year when the population of Rome was roughly the same as the number of students at my undergraduate college.

Level 67

Jul 25, 2018

Wait why'd it drop so much?

Level 65

Jul 27, 2018

Rome was sacked multiple times, and it was hit with disease. Due to the constant warfare and disease, most of the population either died or left the city. Because of this, the population had such a drastic decrease.

Level ∞

Jul 5, 2019

Another reason had to do with the grain dole. For centuries, citizens of Rome received free or reduced price grain from the government. When this ended, there was no longer as much incentive to live in Rome.

Level 42

Mar 27, 2021

The free grain was taken from Egypt but I dont know if they took from another countries too.

Level 51

May 13, 2020

What in the world! Rome had over a Million people in 100 a.d.?

Level 74

Oct 21, 2020

Supposedly it was the first city in history to reach 1m people. I believe the second city to do so was London in around the year 1850! (Pls correct me if I'm mistaken)

Level 57

Dec 23, 2020

Ive also seen Alexandria in 100 BC

Level 41

Feb 26, 2021

The Pope probably asked God for more people and BOOM! Look what happened.

Level 23

Mar 25, 2021

1377-1527 Was the start of all those BOOMS.

Nowadays its 2.8M people.

and way back in 1084 it only had 15,000 people

Jeez man they probably signed the Constitution of 1377 that said more population